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708 Chapter 21: User Interface
Pr ocedur es
To tra nsform an object without touching it:
1.
Use the Selection Floater from the Tools menu,
theSelectByNamebuttononthemaintoolbar
or press the
H key to select the object by name.
2. Click the transform button (move, rotate, or
scale) from the main toolbar.
3. On the status bar, turn on the Selec tion
Lock toggle or press the
Spacebar to lock the
selection set.
4. Press and drag anywhere in the v iewport.
The object transforms even though you are not
touching it.
To avoid a ccidentally canceling a selection:
1.
Make your object selection.
2. ClicktheSelectionLocktoggleonthestatus
line, or press
Spa ceba r to turn on Locked
Selection mode.
To exit sub-object selection mode, do one of the
following:
• In the Modifier Stack display, choose the object
level.
• Open another command panel. This tur ns off
Sub-Object selection.
If you’ve turned off Sub-Object selection and
object selection is still not restored, one of the
following may be true:
• Your selection is locked. Tur n off the Select ion
Lock toggle on the status line.
• You’ve set the Selection Filter in the toolbar to
aspecificcategoryofobject,soyoucan’tselect
any of the other c ategories. To fix this, choose
AllintheSelectionFilterlist.
Coordinate Display
Status bar > Coordinate Display area
TheCoordinateDisplayareashowsthepositionof
thecursororthestatusofatransform,andallows
entry of new transform values.
The informa tion in these fields varies, depending
on what you are doing:
• When you are simply moving the mouse in a
viewport, these fields show the current cursor
location in absolute world coordinates (page
3–1035).
• While you a re creating an object, these fields
also show the cur rent cursor location in
absolute world coordinates.
• While you are transforming an object by
dragging in a viewport, these fields always show
coordinates relative to the object’s coordinates
before the transformation was started.
Whileyouaretransforminganobject,these
fields change to spinners (page 1–13),andyou
cantypevaluesdirectlyinthem,asdescribed
below in “Using the Coordinate Display for
Transform Type-In.” This is an easy alternative
to using the Transform Type-I n dialog (page
1–431).
• While a tr a nsform button is act ive and a single
object is selected, but you are not dragging
the object, these f ields show t he absolute
coordinates for the current transform. See
“Interface,” below.
• While a transform button is active and multiple
objects are selected, these fields are blank.
• When no object is selected and the cursor is not
overtheactiveviewport,thesefieldsareblank.